Tetra Pak cartons are primarily paper based and fully recyclable. Tetra Pak India, the world’s leading packaging and processing solutions provider was felicitated with the ‘Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Social Impact’ award in the ‘Sustainable Environment category’. The award recognizes Tetra Pak’s leading efforts in setting up a sustainable[Read More…]
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Malaysia Halal Expo 2019 puts focus on Tokyo Olympics
The exhibition involves the participation of 320 exhibition booths as well as promotion of halal products and services. The Ministry of Entrepreneur Development (MED) is hosting Malaysia Halal Expo 2019 (MHE2019) from 24 – 26 January 2019 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur. Themed “Malaysia to Japan for[Read More…]
FSANZ approves Non-GMO Reb M Stevia Leaf Sweetener
BESTEVIA Reb M is a non-caloric, high-purity stevia sweetener with a clean, sugar-like taste that can replace up to 100% of sugar or artificial sweeteners in beverages, dairy products, bakeries and nutritional foods, amongst many other applications. SweeGen, Inc. is dedicated to the development, production and distribution of non-caloric sweeteners[Read More…]
Cocoloco brings Singapore’s first naturally pink coconut water in market
The company is able to trace the origin of each and every one of the fruits it uses by working with only nam hom coconuts, particularly famous for their lightly sweet and tropical fragrance, from a single region in Thailand. Cocoloco, Singapore’s first raw coconut water brand, has officially launched the local[Read More…]
Singapore researchers develop natural food stabiliser
The findings are the culmination of a three-year research project led by Professor William Chen, Director of NTU’s Food Science and Technology programme. Researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed an all-natural food stabiliser from the seeds of the durian fruit. The durian, a thorny fruit known[Read More…]
Food Standards Australia New Zealand releases nutrient database
The Australian Food Composition Database contains comprehensive nutrition information on more than 1,500 foods available in Australia. Looking up how much fibre is in dates, the protein content of quinoa or the amount of caffeine in chocolate is now easier with the release of Food Standards Australia New Zealand’s (FSANZ)[Read More…]
Practice of leaving 2-hour gap between dinner and sleep does not affect blood glucose, says a research
The traditional Japanese diet contains a lot of vegetables and soup, and the portion sizes are small. The findings might therefore not be applicable to other nations, add the researchers. Leaving a two-hour gap between the last meal of the day and bedtime doesn’t seem to be associated with any[Read More…]
Alchemy Foodtech raises S$2.5m in pre-series A funding
The start-up aims to partner food manufacturers in the region to create low-GI and hence healthier versions of their products SINGAPORE start-up Alchemy Foodtech has raised S$2.5 million in pre-series A funding, which will accelerate its development of lower glycemic index (GI) food staples and the commercialisation of proprietary functional ingredient[Read More…]
Luckin to expand with 4,500 outlets in 2019
In December 2018, luckin announced having raised USD 200 million in a Series-B round of funding China’s rising coffee chain brand luckin Coffee (luckin) is competing to become the nation’s largest coffee chain with a total of 4,500 stores in operation by the end of the year. Founder and CEO Qian Zhiya made the[Read More…]
F&B Manufacturers Turn to Technology as Business Challenges Mount
In November 2018, over 400 people in Singapore suffered food poisoning in three separate incidents. Among the cases, one involved kindergarten-age children, and in another, sadly, a 38-year-old man died from his illness. All the cases were related to people having consumed food supplied by caterers. Understandably, hygiene and food[Read More…]
